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I picked up on a lot of references to other sci-fi shows and movies in this episode.

See them after the cut....

Stuff I scribbled while I was watching. Hint: spoilers after the cut.

( The last time I did acid I went insane )

Here's a Star Trek wallpaper I made using hobbleit's tutorial.



Click on it to see full size.

An entry! I know! I haven't posted anything here since August. There is a reason for this. When I started using LiveJournal, my intention was to post fandom-ish stuff here. I don't make videos, so that leaves fanart and fanfic as well as episode reviews. I haven't been writing fanfic for a while. My fanart hit a dry spell and I'm not in GIMPing mode too often. I haven't regularly written any sort of episode reviews since Smallville season 4, and they were on Blogger.

That might change. Dollhouse is still a big maybe for me. Smallville might tug me back. Doctor Who doesn't have a regular season schedule until next year. I'm looking forward to V in the spring.

Fringe is the only show I'm regularly watching right now. I don't like writing recaps and my reviews tend to get long-winded, so I'm going to write my reactions to episodes instead. I'll write about the things I liked in the episode, questions (because new ones pop up every week), and my thoughts on the characters.

I don't promise to do this every week, but here's the first one.

( Here be spoilers )

My favorite teen movie is easily The Breakfast Club.  Wonderful cast of characters and genuinely funny. 

I was talking to one of the girls at work yesterday and found out she's a Doctor Who fan too (that makes 4 of us at work now).  I was talking about David Tennant, and then she said that she doesn't like the new series very much, but she's a fan of the old Doctor Who.  We got into why, and she went on a slightly heated rant about how the Doctor can go anywhere in space and time, and yet in the new series he spends a lot of time on Earth.  Sometimes it's in the present day, sometimes it's Pompeii and sometimes it's New New New New New New New...York, but still Earth.  My co-worker's biggest complaint is that the new series isn't very imaginiative.  It doesn't spend much time with alien species and far away planets and when it does, they're not very different from Earth. 

And I realized that doesn't bother me at all.  I haven't seen any of the old Doctor Who episodes (although I'd like to), so maybe if I had I'd feel differently.  If I were a fan of the old series that did go all over the universe, then yeah, maybe sticking to Earth would bug me. What I care about the most is the quality of the stories, and they're good on Doctor Who.  I can't pick a single favorite episode, but Blink is up there along with Human Nature/Family of Blood and Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.  (I know that in season 4 the Doctor and Donna go to an entire planet that's a library, but it's not really that strange of an idea...I'm not counting it as alien.)  Those stories deal with humans and Earth and they're brilliant.  No complaints from me.  The Doctor in the new series seems to like humans.  The planet's champion and Defender of the Earth, that stuff. 

I'd love an episode on the Daleks' or Cybermen's turf, but if we don't get to see it, I won't be bothered.  I like human-centered sci-fi. 

Hello, Firefly.

I've been working my way back into GIMP lately, so here are a few banners I've made over the last week. I followed a tutorial by senatorseth step-by-step to make this Twilight banner. I haven't read the book series or seen the movie (or plan to do either) so this is pretty much the only thing I'll do in the Twilight fandom. :p Seth's tutorials are very detailed and complete.  The result is beautiful.




I followed roughly the same steps with some changes to the color settings to make this Doctor Who banner.



Then a few days later I used the same techniques but didn't follow the tutorial as I worked.  The result was this Roswell banner.  I like that it's a mix of greens, yellows, and pinks.  Too much yellow?  I'm not sure.  I ran into my usual problem of not knowing what text to include (of if I should include any at all).  Any suggestions are welcomed.

I made these a while ago and never posted them, so here they are. 

Smallville season 1 quotes

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Dr. Horrible

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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I saw this on Senator Seth's journal. I've met a lot of people in forums for TV shows (most recently, on Supernatural.tv) and enjoyed fandoms with them.  It's incredible that people from all over the world can talk online about a shared interest and then those conversations continue and expand to the point where you consider each other friends even if you've never met in real life, even if you've never seen each other's faces or heard each other's voices.

Second meme is one I saw on Hobbleit's journal.

Wallpaper meme

001: Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
002: Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
003: Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

I'm currently using this Doctor Who wallpaper I made.



I hadn't made anything in GIMP for a while (and no wallpaper in an even longer time period), so I put together this wallpaper.  I like the individual parts--the images, coloring, text, and brush work--I'm just not sure if I like it all together as a whole.  I don't know if I should change anything or what should be different, so I have it as my desktop background so that I see it often and maybe something will stick out.  I figure if I keep it in front of me, maybe I'll suddenly realize why it feels off.  Feel free to leave any feedback about it. :)

Oh, and in case anyone's interested, the words on the wallpaper are lyrics from Robots in Love.

I'm GIMPing again after making very few things for a long time, so I opened it up and made this banner of River from Firefly/Serenity. Didn't take very long. One image. I messed with the colors and added some texture. Feel free to leave comments about it.




The words are lyrics from February 5th 2008 by Telekinesis! which you can listen to here.  I heard it yesterday on thesixtyone.com and loved it immediately. :)

Found a two-part post of text icons about the Doctor Who fandom. It started because of this entry.

Part 1
Part 2

Awesome icons mostly incorporating Doctor Who quotes. 

I just glanced at the top 100 movies on IMDB, and I realized I haven't seen many of them.  I bolded the ones that I've seen entirely (I didn't count movies that I've seen only parts of). 

( See the list )

18/100 for me. How many have you seen?

Randomly found this meme on djtifabal 's journal, and I thought it was cool so here goes.  I love movie quotes. :)

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions.

( Which ones do you know? )

Now that Round 1 of Firefly Rumble is over, here are my icons from it. Every week had a different theme, and here are the icons I submitted for each challenge.

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I won second place in three of the challenges:






Firefly Rumble was a lot of fun, and it motivated me to try new things in making icons. I don't have time right now to participate in Round 2, but if you'd like to check it out, sign ups are currently open.

Got this from sweetie0704.

Are you a TV series fan? Put your mind to the test, and list some of your favorite fictional characters - one for each letter of the alphabet.

15 icons from season 2's Tooth and Claw

Teaser:

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( It's the hour of the wolf and I don't want to die )

The 2008 Supernatural.tv Awards are officially underway! 

This is the third summer for these awards that celebrate the series Supernatural and the Supernatural.tv forums.  We'll have nominations, voting, and banner challenges from now until September, so feel free to stop by and participate!

Check out the schedule for June.

16 Doctor Who icons from seasons 1 and 2.

Teaser:
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( He burns at the centre of time and can see the turn of the universe )

[16] Smallville icons
[6] Superman Returns icons

Teaser:
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( In your world, green means stop. But red...Red means go. )